Readings, Talks, Workshops, and PerformancesRecentSpeech: “ICE Violates Sacred Ground,” Free Binsar rally at Baltimore ICE field office. Baltimore, Maryland. September 29, 2020. ABC 7 News – WJLA Complete Speech on iPhone Online Seminar: The Desperate Poetic Concept of The Killing Joke; or, How to Manage Anxiety as The Walls Come Tumbling Down… (see Highlights below) Hosted by Rhizome D.C. June 25, 2020. Reading: new Signature poetry and Heraclitean Pride power of words excerpts. Welcome to Boog City 13 at Unnameable Books, Brooklyn. September 26, 2019. Readings and performance/ “artist resident” installation : Melted Away weekend by LigoranoReese, “Truth Be Told DC.” Reading at Poets and Busboys, my Truth-ICE poem, “Ceterum Censeo” on the Friday night, artist residence and live writing Saturday, with the piece posted on the project website, http://meltedaway.com September 21-22, 2018. Reading: Pantone pantoums and latest signature poetry. Spiral Staircase Reading Series at 49 West coffeehouse and winebar. Annapolis, Maryland. June 17, 2018. Reading and performance: “Translations”-themed reading Blabbermouth reading at the Carriage House In Your Ear reading at DCAC eckClogs live, with Tony Mancus, Casey Smith, and Christophe Casamassima (performing Gowri Koneswaran’s piece with me) “8 Phases of Staring at the Sun”, performance and presentation “Polyphonic readings and harmonic listening of Cage texts” Valentine’s Day Poet in Residence, Poets Are Present Performance/Performance curator: This Place Has a Voice Curator and Host: Boog Poets Theater Night Performance: “drone: poetic monologue for monotone” Talk/Reading: keynote speaker Talk: on the DC Poets community, and the alternative poetry network Reading: Spiral Staircase Reading Series Lecture/reading: “The Free Spirit: Art, Philosophy, and Life” Performance/theater: “drone: poetic monologue for monotone” Play: Murder on the Bare Stage Play: Murder on the Bare Stage Performance: Idyll, “A Street-Merchant Imagines His Riches to Come” The Great American Furniture Press Poetry Tour Complete Schedule: September 27, 2013 September 28, 2013 September 29, 2013 September 30, 2013 October 1, 2013 October 2, 2013 October 3, 2013 October 4, 2013 October 5, 2013 October 6, 2013 October 7, 2013 Reading: Shakemore Festival Performance: Antigone Idyll Performance (guerilla): Antigone Idyll Play: Murder on the Bare Stage Highlights Along the WayPlays, Performances, and Poets Theater Idylls showcases and associated performances have been presented at Washington Shakespeare Theatre’s “Happenings at the Harman” at Sidney Harman Hall and at Bloombars in Washington, D.C.; at the Athenaeum in Alexandria, Virginia; at Towson Arts Center in Towson, Maryland; at the Soundry in Vienna, Virginia; at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in New Orleans, Louisiana; and at the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) conference at Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, New York, New York – among many other venues and contexts going back to the late 1990s. Reading/performance/art event: Heraclitean Pride extravaganza “Verb Sap Recitative,” collaboration with flutist Jennifer Lapple Concert: spoken word with SPLASH ensemble “Poetic Necromancy”: Heraclitus ritual Play: Staging of Harlequin, Again!: or, H,A! Early versions of the plays Idylls for a Bare Stage, Harlequin, Again!: or, H,A!, and Francesca and Paolo in Hell underwent extensive works-shopping and development in New Orleans at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), with Zeitgeist Theatre Experiments at Zeitgeist Alternative Arts Center, and with Madame Palmetto’s Amusement Company at the Rooster Theatre. 1998-2002. Talks and Workshops/Lectures and Seminars 2020 Coronavirus/Trump Shitshow development: Online seminar: The Desperate Poetic Concept of the Killing Joke; or, How to Manage Anxiety as the Walls Come Tumbling Down… Single session digest and timely update on the original 4-part series. Hosted by Rhizome D.C. June 25 in the Real World. Online seminar: The Desperate Poetic Concept of the Killing Joke; or, How to Manage Anxiety When the Walls are Closing in…Talks, discussions, and roundtable indulgences on the history and concept of the “Killing Joke.” Sprung from an in-progress poetic essay by Magus Magnus, this course functions as a multimedia creativity and catharsis workshop, with creative/therapeutic games, prompts, rituals, and cerebrations-celebrations – online party style. Let’s get through confinement, oppression, and contagion together with our free spirits intact and our inspirations unleashed. Hosted by Rhizome D.C. 4-session experience scheduled for April 9, 16, 23, and 30 occurred exclusively on the astral plane/parallel worlds. Talks and readings on the “Canon of the Free Spirit” (first presented in the spring of 2014 at Towson University’s Geo-aesthetics Conference). Variations on Magnus’ “Poetic Ways of Knowing” presentation (lectures and “immersive thinking events” focused on the pre-Socratics, especially Heraclitus) have been presented at the D.C. Public Library, Towson University, George Mason University, and at the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) conference at Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus. Along with recent talks on issues in contemporary poetry at George Washington University and at Northern Virginia Community College, Magnus has guest lectured on poetry for University of Maryland University College (online), spoke on the “Poetic Sentences” panel for the 2011 Conversations and Connections Conference at Johns Hopkins University D.C. campus, and several times served as an arts grants panelist and poetry fellowship panelist for the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Magnus has also lectured on Antonin Artaud and Carl Dreyer and The Passion of Joan of Arc at Towson University. Magnus’ workshop for actors – The Art of the Poetic Monologue/ Technique of the Idyll – has been offered at the D.C. Public Library, The Actors’ Center in Washington D.C., Theater on the Run in Arlington, Virginia, and at Bloombars in Washington, D.C. Readings Magnus has given frequent poetry readings over the years for a variety of reading series in a variety of venues in Washington, D.C and Baltimore; has been a regular at the Shakemore Festival in Westminster, Maryland; and has appeared several times at various venues in Philadelphia and Brooklyn; he even made it to Buffalo and Chicago before the Great American Furniture Press Tour, as well as to Duke University’s Minor American reading series and to the Boston Poetry Marathon and BBQ at Outpost 186 (in conjunction with Boog 5) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 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